Letters to the Editor for the week of August 31

Published 7:00 pm, Wednesday, August 30, 2000

Dear Editor:

I must say that the Aug. 16 edition of "Your Opinion-Letters" was so filled with hate from the Republicans, a.k.a. A.N.M. Geldens, Leo Chapman, Charlene Butts and John Lagace, that they failed to mention that Reagan spent more money than anyone from Washington to him combined, and that we had to distribute cheese and butter and rice every month to feed poor people. Even corporate executives were walking the streets looking for work. To read those half-truths they all said shows me that there is zero compassion in all of you.

Al Gore is running for president, not Clinton. Why is it fine for Newt to have an affaire that cost him his marriage and him being dishonest? Because he's a Republican, that makes it OK? Henry Hyde has kids all over Washingtonê that doesn't cut it because it was 30 years ago and he's a Republican.

My morals are just as high as any of you, if not higher. I'm sorry, but if I were a Republican, I couldn't vote for anyone who is so two-faced.

The economy is the best it has been in 30 years, and if a Republican could do a better job, they had 12 years and didn't do anything constructive but screw up the deficit to a point that it took Clinton eight years to turn it around.

I'm not against anyone having money, but the way they get it and the way they treat the less fortunate is a disgrace to this country. If I were weighing my contribution to the human race it would not be on the backs of others including the elderly and children.

Shame on all of you.

Billie Brocket

New Caney

Dear Editor:

I do not normally respond to letters in any newspapers because I believe everyone has a right to voice their opinions. However, the letter from Charlene Butts printed in the Observer on Aug. 16 cries for an answer.

I am including a list of words she used so liberally (excuse the pun) as the Oxford American dictionary defines them:

Progressive: Making continuous forward movement, proceeding steadily or in regular degrees; advancing in social conditions or efficiency (a progressive nation or firm).

Socialism: A political and economical theory advocating that land, transport, natural resources and the chief industries should be owned and managed by the government.

Conservatism: Disliking or opposed to great or sudden change.

Dear lady, if you are using words, make sure you understand their meaning.

Democratic leadership has been taken over by a fascist bunch? I thought you hate Democrats because they are too "liberal" for you! According to your letter, we Democrats lie, cheat and are willing to sell out America. We use bribery, character assassination and even physical harm to grab power? We get our marching orders each day from the White House? The only things I get from the White House are pictures of Socks," the oval office or the garden, thanking me for my contribution to the Democratic Party!

Lady, get a grip! Live and let live. You are a right-wing Republican and I am a liberal Democrat. There is room for both of us in this great country, but there is no room for hatred.

Nadia Waldo

Kingwood

Dear Editor:

I am amazed at the number of good people who believe good will always overcome evil and that rational arguments will always prevail. In this country, the left has appropriated the Democratic Party (the progressive wing) and if you haven't noticed, they do not resort to rational arguments, nor do they give up when courts rule against them.

The left learned long ago that humans will eventually cave in to constant pressure and will belief what is constantly repeated. If you do not believe this, consider that John Kennedy was to the right of George Bush. What does that say about the direction of our nation? Consider that the rights of gays and minorities are now held above the rights of the mainstream. Not equal to, but above. Consider that the racial healing begun by Martin Luther King is now fractured by special interest bigots like Farrukhan and Jesse Jackson.

Why do we find ourselves here? Because the "right don't fight. The left is organized, we are not. The left does, we talk. They have an agenda and go for it, we talk some more. For an example, the gays are bashing the Boy Scouts because they will not allow gays to join. Do you see any press in favor of the Boy Scout position? What is the message there? What do you personally believe? Have you done anything about it?

If you believe the left's agenda is to get gays into the Boy Scouts, read on. The true purpose is to eliminate the Boy Scouts. The Scouts are for patriotism, and being good citizens. This is anathema to the teachings of the left. The left knows that the Boy Scouts will fold from loss of membership if gays are let in. The purpose is destruction of the American ideal, to prevent kids from learning these principles.

This is worth fighting. It takes you doing something. It takes you calling the United Way and forcing them to continue funding the Boy Scouts or you will not donate to them. Yes, the United Way does good. But they are folding to gay rights and many United Way organizations have stopped funding the Boy Scouts.

Call them or write to them but do it in numbers and let them know you want a commitment to the Boy Scouts or they will receive no funds from you. You can send your money to your favorite charity directly instead. Please also send a donation to the Boy Scouts. By the way, calling the TV stations in mass and bashing them for biased coverage will also help.

John Lagace

Kingwood

Dear Editor:

Well, Mr. Caldwell, how much would you pay someone so that they are no longer poor?

Is it our fault that their people skills are so minimal that they are only worth $5.15 per hour? Why not pay them $10.15 per hour; then nobody is poor. Good, then no more food stamp program, no more free school lunches, no more free anything.

Can it be that the definition of poor is a moving target?

John Strom

Kingwood

Dear Editor:

To KM Craig ("Phone Rage, 8/23/00) I say BRAVO! Finally someone else sees the complete lunacy that is our phone bills. There wouldn't be so many extra charges if the geniuses at Sprint stopped wasting paper and took an 8-page phone bill written in legalese down to one page in a common language. But Mr. Craig, you forgot the other rip-off known as cable. Something is inherently wrong when it costs more to watch TV than it does to heat my house or drive my SUV, and that's without a single premium channel. By the way, why do we need so many sports channels? The brain trust at Sprint apparently also works at our local cable station.

BRAVO also to TL Mayfield (No Begging, 8/23/00) about our being accosted at every corner by parents (and their children) soliciting funds to send those children somewhere. I am proud of all young people who do good things and I cheer the loudest when "the home team" wins, but I will not help you finance your children's activities. When you signed them up to participate, you did it with your eyes open and your hands should be in your own wallet. As a 50-something secretary trying to pay for the only home I have ever owned, I would like to be able to spend my money as I choose without someone constantly begging me for it. That also applies to all of your children who ignore "No Soliciting" and knock on our door anyway.

To Rose Blakelock, (Parks Needed, 8/23/00) if she is finding children of an age that they still "play" in parking lots late at night, then we do not need more parks, we need involved parents. If she is referring to teenagers, they do not "play" and I do not know a single one who looks forward to spending an evening in the park. What can they do there besides (as you said) play basketball or throw a frisbee (yawn) or, better yet, smuggle in illeg